AOC warns the US is 'headed towards fascism' under Trump who 'engineered' the border crisis and again repeats her claim that the detention centers are concentration camps

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said the United States is 'headed to fascism' 
• She tweeted Tuesday that detainees 'were locked in a cage under armed guard', 'drank out of a toilet' and 'given food of such poor nutritional value' 
• She added: 'These are concentration camps. According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding'
• Monday she said the conditions were 'completely engineered by' Donald Trump
• She said if Trump 'really cared about human lives' he'd declare national emergency to help those suffering at the border
• Kellyanne Conway hit back at the Democrat who voted against '$4.6 billion bipartisan humanitarian aid that is FOR THEM'
• But AOC snapped: 'I don't believe in billion dollar blank checks for unethical, abusive administrations. Including yours' 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said the United States is 'headed to fascism' after she toured detention centers at the border and slammed 'horrifying' conditions in which women and children were being held. 

'Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don't think there's a question,' the congresswoman told Yahoo News on Monday after the El Paso visit during which she claimed detainees were being forced to 'drink toilet water'. 

'If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.'

She added that the centers were like World War II as she claimed the crisis was 'completely engineered by [Donald Trump]'. 

Ocasio-Cortez slammed conditions at the centers following Monday's visit and doubled down on her comments Tuesday. She said: 'were locked in a cage under armed guard', 'drank out of a toilet' and 'given food of such poor nutritional value, for so long, that it gave [them] mouth sores'. 

She tweeted Tuesday evening: 'Are CBP officers waking up women in the middle of sleep a “funding” problem? Is calling migrants “filthy” “wh*res” a funding problem? Is threatening violence on members of Congress a “funding” problem? No, it’s not. It’s a far deeper, systemic, more violent problem than that. 

And she also retweeted an article which claimed her 'toilet-drinking' claims were false, saying: 'The right is responding to what’s been exposed at the border by denying it & saying I’m lying.

'Hard to assert when the details I shared are corroborated by other members of Congress, court documents, migrant testimony, and now photos released today by the Inspector General.'

She had previously been criticized by some politicians for her view.

The New York Rep tweeted: 'These are concentration camps. According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources. We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday. And those are the deaths we know about.' 

The politician had said Monday that if Trump 'really cared about human lives' he would declare a national emergency to help those suffering at the border.

AOC had been pictured hugging detainees as she complained about the appalling behavior of CBP officers who tried to take selfies with her and stopped checking IDs of the 14 congress members halfway through their admission when they realized it was 'inappropriate'.

Elaborating on her experience where a Cuban woman claimed she was told to get drinking water from a toilet, she said in an interview that the women were just like her.

'I saw one young woman today ... she looked exactly like I looked when I was 14. ... She had the same build, she had a similar face. ... She looked like me, like 14-year-old me. ... She could have been my cousin,' Ocasio-Cortez said Monday. 'Especially with these other women, especially with these Cuban women, they're Caribbean too, like me. ... They're me.'

She called The El Paso Border Patrol Station 1 'the most horrible of them all'.

After a private Facebook group frequented by current and former U.S. Border Patrol agents became a hotbed of controversy when leaked images depicted the Democratic socialist performing oral sex on a migrant man, and another portraying President Donald Trump forcing her head into his lap for another sex act, AOC claimed she wasn't made to feel safe.

Rep. Joaquin Castro accompanied AOC and brought up the Facebook group, but Ocasio-Cortez said what had initiated an investigation of which members of Congress were told there would be 'internal disciplinary measures' as a result, CBP didn't seem so confident on Monday.

AOC said when Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., asked if the Democrats would be safe during their visit, 'They wouldn't even answer her'.

Ocasio-Cortez added: 'They were absolutely rude and they were absolutely talking back as though they had as much power as the oversight powers of Congress ... as though they were exempt from congressional oversight.'  

The politician claimed CBP 'froze' and got 'pissed off' when she pointed out that they were trying to take pictures with her as she watched overcrowded conditions where children were living via a monitor.

AOC noted that cellphone usage is not even allowed in the facility.

'This tells me that there is no disciplinary culture,' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'This tells me that you have lost all control. You have lost all control of the conduct of the officers in this facility ... so there are no rules here.'

AOC noted that for CBP on their 'best behavior', it 'was shocking not just because of the conditions, but because of how flagrant the CBP officials were in front of us'.

Ocasio-Cortez there's only so much she can do to expose the regime she blames Donald Trump for, as she's not in a position of leadership.

'No matter how nefarious you may be or how generous you may be, the incentive would be to put your best foot forward and to represent the operation as efficient, and effective, and controlled as possible,' said Ocasio-Cortez. 'If this was their best behavior today, what that tells me is that the conditions are far more horrifying than even what we saw.'

AOC called the conditions during her visit to Casa Franklin 'fine' but said it was bizarre how staff didn't seem to realize the extent of what children were going through.

Ocasio-Cortez said about the response she got from speaking to CBP staff: 'To say that these kids ... were fine and not traumatized, it ... raised alarm bells.'

AOC's elaboration on Twitter prompted Kellyanne Conway to hit back that the Democrat voted against '$4.6 billion bipartisan humanitarian aid that is FOR THEM'.

Conway tweeted: 'How many migrant women did @AOC help by voting AGAINST the $4.6 billion bipartisan humanitarian aid that is FOR THEM? (She even voted against the Democrat aid package). All talk, no dollars.' 

But AOC hit back: 'The $4.6 billion wasn't humanitarian at all. It had NO accountability measures for facilities that abuse children and families. It didn't fix the problem, just funded abuse. I don't believe in billion dollar blank checks for unethical, abusive administrations. Including yours.

'Are CBP officers waking up women in the middle of sleep a "funding" problem? Is calling migrants "filthy" "wh*res" a funding problem? Is threatening violence on members of Congress a 'funding' problem? No, it's not. It's a far deeper, systemic, more violent problem than that.'

AOC added in a later tweet: 'Maybe you actually do your job and show up to a Congressional hearing next time you want to talk to me. After all you, you ran away and skipped out on Oversight committee last week, just to call into Fox and Friends instead.'